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  2. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A double letter within a word is signed in different ways, through a bounce of the hand, a slide of the hand, or repeating the sign of a letter. [4] Letters are signed at a constant speed; a pause functions as a word divider. The first letter may be held for the length of a letter extra as a cue that the signer is about to start fingerspelling.

  3. ASL-phabet - Wikipedia

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    ASL-phabet, or the ASL Alphabet, is a writing system developed by Samuel Supalla for American Sign Language (ASL). It is based on a system called SignFont, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which Supalla modified and streamlined for use in an educational setting with Deaf children.

  4. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    LOVE CHILD FATHER LOVE CHILD "The father loves the child." However, other word orders may also occur since ASL allows the topic of a sentence to be moved to sentence-initial position, a phenomenon known as topicalization. In object–subject–verb (OSV) sentences, the object is topicalized, marked by a forward head-tilt and a pause: CHILD topic, FATHER LOVE CHILD topic, FATHER LOVE "The ...

  5. 'Sesame Street' celebrates Deaf History Month with music ...

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    Deaf History Month began on March 13 and to celebrate, Sesame Workshop partnered with the National Theater of the Deaf to create music videos featuring American Sign Language (ASL) for kids all ...

  6. File:Sign language K.svg - Wikipedia

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    Sign language – letter K. Based on the Gallaudet font. {{PD-self}} File usage. The following 4 pages use this file: American manual alphabet; K; User:Vanisaac/test/3;

  7. Initialized sign - Wikipedia

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    The large number of initialized signs in ASL and French Sign Language is partly a legacy of Abbé de l'Épée's system of Methodical Sign (les signes méthodiques), in which the handshapes of most signs were changed to correspond to the initial letter of their translation in the local oral language, and (in the case of ASL) partly a more recent ...

  8. American Sign Language phonology - Wikipedia

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    The top most hand is the ASL sign for the letter /b/ with the different realizations of the same phoneme below it. The bottom left hand shows the fingers bent at the bottom most joint and the bottom right hand shows the thumb being along the side of the hand. Each phoneme may have multiple allophones, i.e. different realizations of the same ...

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